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the same time. If there is someone who is familiar with the 

 blossoming habits of some late ones, I should think you could 

 get those and that you ought to have some of those with 

 your Spy. 



In regard to the Bosc, it doesn't necessarily follow that 

 because it was self-sterile in New York, that it would be in 

 Massachusetts, but it is risky. 



QUESTION. The way to do is to try, I suppose.. 



PROF. CHENOWETPI. No. I think the way to do 

 would be to provide for cross-pollination. 



QUESTION. With a fairly large variety — say a dozen 

 or fifteen standard apple trees — would we stand a pretty 

 fair chance of ^getting some ourselves ? 



PROF. CHENOWETH. Yes, you would have abundant 

 opportunity for that. 



QUESTION. It is an extremely interesting subject, and 

 I have found it difficult to get anybody that seemed to know 

 much about it. 



PROFESSOR SEARS. This gentleman has asked 

 where he can get certain information. I would suggest that 

 if he joins this organization, he will get all of this from the 

 reports we send out. 



QUESTION. Will it have these very figures? 



PROF. CHENOWETH. Yes ; and I have given also the 

 authorities from which I have taken the figures, or which I 

 have consulted in preparing this paper. That, I think, will 

 be the most valuable part of it, because you can go then to 

 your source and can get it in much greater detail than I 

 would attempt to present to you here. 



MR. NORMAN. I would like to ask the speaker if there 

 is anything in the idea that bees follow flowers of one color, 

 and if it might be that, if you let the cover crop blossom at 

 the same time as your trees, the bees would neglect the fruit 

 and go to the cover crop. 



PROF. CHENOWETH. I think Mr. Purrington can 

 answer that. 



MR. NORMAN. I ask that question because of a specif- 

 ic instance. We have a pear orchard of perhaps four acres 

 in extent and have a cover crop in which rape predominates. 

 This spring we failed to plow it until after it blossomed. It 

 has big, yellow flowers, and lots of them. It blossomed a 



